A varied, vivid view of the literary culture of the often-neglected interwar Austrian republic. WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The literary flair of fin-de-si cle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from those in Weimar Germany, Austrian literary...